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YOUNG SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. 
CHJ1RJWRIUS SEMIPJ1LMJ1TUS. 
Plate XXV. Fig. 4. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology , Ring-Plover , Charadrius (Tringa , by a typogra¬ 
phical error,) Hiaticula , vol. VII, p. 65, (Ord’s ed. p. 69,) pi. 59, fig. 3, for the Adult 
in spring dress, and the history. 
Charadrius semipalmatus, Nob. Obs. Nom. Wils. sp. 219. Id. Cat. and Syn. birds U. S. 
sp. 216. Id. Speech, comp. sp. Phitad. Caup, Isis, XII, 1825, p. 1375, t. 14, (the 
head and foot.) Wagler, Syst. Av. I, Charadrius , sp. 23. 
Philadelphia Museum. 
The credit of first pointing out the curious though obscure 
character which distinguishes the present bird from its very near 
relative the Ch. hiaticula of Europe, is due to Mr. Ord, and after 
verifying it in all our American specimens, we feel satisfied that 
the true hiaticula does not inhabit this continent, and those authors 
who have recorded it as American, must have mistaken the pre¬ 
sent species for it: we might therefore have swelled our limited list 
of synonyms with quotations of all their American specimens 
described under this name. The species was first established in 
our “Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson,” and in our 
“ Synopsis,” and nearly at the same time by Mr. Caup also, on a 
single specimen in the Museum of Darmstadt, whose origin was 
doubtful, but the real one suspected. By a fortunate coincidence, 
Mr. Caup and myself were led to select the same appropriate 
name for our bird, which is the less extraordinary, as being sug¬ 
gested by so material an anomaly in the characters; Natural 
History conducting us in this instance to the result of one of the 
most exact sciences. 
